Use After Free Affecting kernel-default-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.73.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEFAULTDEVEL-7697205
  • published17 Aug 2024
  • disclosed16 Aug 2024

Introduced: 16 Aug 2024

CVE-2021-47614  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.55.73.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-devel package and not the kernel-default-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/irdma: Fix a user-after-free in add_pble_prm

When irdma_hmc_sd_one fails, 'chunk' is freed while its still on the PBLE info list.

Add the chunk entry to the PBLE info list only after successful setting of the SD in irdma_hmc_sd_one.

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